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Sample: UT1718

Sample ID: UT1718 [1] [2]
Station ID: NK29A
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Volcano:
Possible source:
Eruption: Old Crow Tephra
Collector: Unknown, Unknown
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
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Final unit:
Text Description: 3 cm thick. Small pods of tephra occur over 1.1 m laterally within dark brown, organic-rich silty flood-plain deposits. Locally, the organic-rich silt is capped with a peaty bed and grey silt. Tephra is cut by an ice wedge cast and is located 16 m above river level (Elias et al. 1999).
Sample Location:

References Cited

[1] A catalogue of late Cenozoic tephra beds in the Klondike Goldfields and adjacent areas, Yukon Territory, 2011

Preece, S.J., Westgate, J.A., Froese, D.G., Pearce, N.J.G., and Perkins, W.T., 2011, A catalogue of late Cenozoic tephra beds in the Klondike Goldfields and adjacent areas, Yukon Territory: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 48, p. 1386-1418, doi: 10.1139/e10-110

[2] Old Crow tephra across eastern Beringia: a single cataclysmic eruption at the close of Marine Isotope Stage 6, 2011

Preece, S.J., Pearce, N.J.G., Westgate, J.A., Froese, D.G., Jensen, B.J.L., and Perkins, W.T., 2011, Old Crow tephra across eastern Beringia: a single cataclysmic eruption at the close of Marine Isotope Stage 6: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 30, p. 2069-2099, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.04.020 .